Earth had a minimoon for around 3 years before it drifted away few months ago
The minimoon has now drifted away but astronomers said that more such minimoons will be found orbiting Earth in the future.
Nov 25, 2020, 10:31 AM IST
Flash of luck: Astronomers spot cosmic radio burst source in our own Milky Way
In April, a relatively weaker radio burst coming from our own Milky Way galaxy was spotted by two dissimilar telescopes
Nov 05, 2020, 11:01 AM IST
Scientists come across 'Vampire' star gorging on victim
The new program acts as a detective to find clues of very fast, mysterious explosions in the universe.
Jan 26, 2020, 12:38 PM IST
Asteroid with city-wiping potential narrowly misses hitting Earth, takes scientists by surprise
A 427-foot-wide asteroid with the potential to wipe out an entire city passed by the Earth earlier this week. However, the scientists and astronomers were not aware of the development until just days before it whizzed past the earth.
Jul 28, 2019, 16:42 PM IST
Astronomers discover over 100 new exoplanets
They confirmed that 104 of them are really exoplanets. Seven of the confirmed exoplanets have ultra-short orbital periods less than 24 hours.
Dec 05, 2018, 11:31 AM IST
Astronomers discover hot Earth-sized planet outside our solar system
K2-229b is 20 percent larger than Earth but has a mass 2.6 times greater -- and a dayside temperature of over 2000 degrees Celsius.
Mar 28, 2018, 15:30 PM IST
Rowling, Malala, Usain Bolt picked out in constellations
The new constellations based on modern day inspirational figures were created in a bid to get more children looking up to the stars and interested in the universe.
Dec 13, 2017, 19:11 PM IST
There's a star in the universe that won't stop shinning, claim astronomers
The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, have been observed in the thousands and in all cases, they marked the death of a star.
Astronomers detect cold dust around Earth's nearest star
The new observations reveal emission from clouds of cold cosmic dust surrounding the star.
Nov 04, 2017, 16:32 PM IST
Seven moons work together to keep Saturn's largest ring in place
For three decades, astronomers thought that only Saturn's moon Janus confined the planet's A ring.
This star swallowed its own planets
Dubbed Kronos after the child-eating Titan of Greek mythology, the star is the clearest and most dramatic case yet of a Sun-like star consuming its own planets
Oct 13, 2017, 16:14 PM IST
Astronomers detect massive black hole near heart of Milky Way
It was discovered lurking in a toxic gas cloud near the heart of the Milky Way.
Sep 05, 2017, 13:59 PM IST
We bet you wouldn't have seen a star so closely before – Watch this video
They have also made the first two-dimensional map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star beyond the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in the red supergiant star Antares's huge extended atmosphere.
Aug 24, 2017, 13:37 PM IST
Astronomers identify oldest asteroid family
The team also discovered a relatively sparse region of the main asteroid belt, where the few asteroids present are likely pristine relics from early in solar system history.
Aug 04, 2017, 19:08 PM IST
Astronomers detect large quantity of methanol around Saturn's moon Enceladus
Enceladus`s plumes are thought to originate in water escaping from a subsurface ocean through cracks in the moon`s icy surface. Eventually these plumes feed into Saturn`s second-outermost ring, the E-ring.
Jul 05, 2017, 15:35 PM IST
In a first, astronomers discover orbiting supermassive black holes
Last year, an international team of researchers detected the existence of gravitational waves, confirming German physicist Albert Einstein's 100-year-old prediction and astonishing the scientific community.
Jun 28, 2017, 16:45 PM IST
Astronomers discover huge 'dead' disk-shaped galaxy
The discovery challenges the current understanding of how massive galaxies form and evolve, researchers said.
Jun 22, 2017, 13:39 PM IST
Infant stars surrounded by life enabling chemicals, say astronomers
The IRAS 16293-2422 is a multiple protostar system, in a large star-forming region called Rho Ophiuchi in the Serpent Bearer constellation.
Jun 09, 2017, 17:12 PM IST
Astronomers use Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity to measure mass of star
Researchers measured the mass of a white dwarf star by analysing how much it bent the light of a more distant star, just as Einstein asserted could be done more than a century ago, as per Efe news report.
Jun 08, 2017, 22:48 PM IST
Astronomers discover cold brown dwarf near our solar system
A brown dwarf, which is a little more than 100 light years away from the Sun was discovered by astronomers with the help of a new citizen-science tool.
Jun 03, 2017, 19:55 PM IST
